On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 11:59:14PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > I agree with a lot of what you said, and really miss DWN myself. > > For people already interested in, and involved with Debian, reading > mailing lists, the wiki, and the blogs on planet was probably a better > way to keep up. However, DWN was important as it was an easy to find, > and easy to read summary. Keeping up with hundreds of mails, updates on > the wiki, and skimming blogs to filter out the Debian related stuff[0] > is hard work. > > DWN was also important as it was being translated to different languages > and the fact that it was made a de facto timeline of everything > happening in the Debian universe. > > I honestly believe PR and generating hype is two of Debian's major > shortcomings. For example, www.debian.org doesn't contain any > interesting news about the Etch freeze, no snapshots of the eyecandy the Hi Sven, Have you seen this?[0] > debian-desktop project has made for etch, etc. The design itself looks > like something stuck way back in 1998. The newly created debian sites > for debconf[1] by comparison looks modern and fresh. Cheers, Kev [0] http://times.debian.net/ -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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